December 10, 2015 "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 10 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 202.01, up 0.27 points from yesterday, of which the “Shopping Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 203.11, up 0.21 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural wholesale markets was 22.70 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 176.05), up 1.0% from yesterday;

Beef 54.46 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Mutton 46.95 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.03 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.67 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 kinds of vegetables under key monitoring was 4.10 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 228.29), down 0.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 kinds of fruit under key monitoring was 4.83 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

The average price of crucian carp was 14.10 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Common carp 11.93 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.30 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.56 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: watermelon, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, onion and silver carp, with increases of 4.1%, 2.1%, 2.1%, 2.1% and 1.1% respectively; the top five price decreases were: pineapple, cauliflower, large yellow croaker, shiitake mushroom and spinach, with decreases of 3.6%, 2.8%, 2.8%, 2.6% and 2.4% respectively.